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I couldn't be bothered to spend hours editing a video this week so I just uploaded a short instead :)

You know what, I knew that The night they raided Minskys was his last film, but I didn't know Norman Wisdom was in it. I used to love the lovable clown Norman Wisdom when I was younger.

@@richardarthur-nycstories I first became aware of Norman when I was a kid & a local TV station would sometimes show his films during their morning matinee. It was the 60s, so there was no cable, satellite or home video. Most TV stations showed movies, either during the daytime or during the late night hours.

Yeah I'm going to guess that she lived on that very street.

So this is how you know. On a streetlamp at the intersection there will be a red light that lights up at night if it works. If it doesn't work then there is no light at that intersection. 1 in every 40 calls to emergency call centers come from these boxes, so they are indeed still in use.

Thanks for the information I never knew that.Richard you are a man of great knowledge.Thank You

Whenever I run out of stories in Queens and Brooklyn, there is twice as many to tell in Manhattan :)

@@richardarthur-nycstories A veritable treasure chest of tantalizing tales !!

The main reason that they exist, believe it or not, is for people who are deaf. My guess is that in the future they will be replaced by some form of digital device, perhaps activated by a key that is given to the deaf community. Something like that anyway.

@@richardarthur-nycstories As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point, Fab Friend!

Cliff Richard, Britain's first rock and roll star.

@@richardarthur-nycstories Fascinated by the life & career of Cliff Richard. Had a few songs on the American charts but sadly never became as big over here as he is the UK.

Or putting a glass cup against the wall to listen to the neighbors argue :)

Thank you very much!

People may think that I am talking nonsense, but the biggest reason they still exist is for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. I honestly don't know how it works, but they have a system where a deaf person can use these boxes. I'm guessing that they can put their hand on the speaker, feel the vibration, and they can then respond either verbally, or I believe they have a code they can tap onto the call box. It's quite fascinating. The hard of hearing was the specific reason the ADA cited when Giuliani tried to remove all the boxes. Before I sent my reply I went looking, here's a video that explains it all :) th-cam.com/video/qQD0uDz5gVM/w-d-xo.html

One day we will all be replaced by AI :)

Pay phones in my Texas town have been so long gone, I couldn't even put a number of the amount of years, if I had to guess maybe 14 years ago.

Yeah you can barely find a payphone anywhere in NY these days. Believe it or not but these boxes are primarily still there because of the American's with disabilities act. Rudy Giuliani tried to have them all removed when he was Mayor but the ADA successfully prevented it from happening.

Likewise for New York. There are a few boxes that have yet to be removed, but there is no semblance of a phone inside them.

It certainly does have a "Jetsons" look to it, doesn't it? Haha. I've scheduled all shorts this week for 6.30am, just to see if the time change helps any.

Hey there. The registration sticker in the window said it was a 63, however, you are almost certainly correct. When I was looking at the car the owner started telling me about parts he had exchanged. It went in one ear and out the other for me because I don't know the first thing about cars, so I am going to guess that the mods you noticed on this '63 Chevy are indeed correct. It is a 63 though.

Apparently the ACME sign is still on the building at the top, but they painted over it. I spent ages down there on one visit trying to make the sign out, but I couldn't do it. This theater was also "Affectionately" called THE ITCH!! No thank you sir, I'll give it a pass.

Many of them have been redesigned over the years, but I'm pretty sure they all still exist. Most of the time, as expansion grows, the memorials become smaller and smaller. One day I will film the smallest plot of land in New York. It is the size of a triangle paving slab. Someone purchased a building, but when they submitted their plans they made an error on the property size. So a corner triangle of the previous property remained the property of the previous owners :) It still exists to this day with its own marker on the slab.

@@richardarthur-nycstories There's also triangle paving stone at 7 ave & christopher st nyc by the Optimo store, if it still exists. That's the only one that I knew of, there must be dozens around ny.

@@mick-mykola-dementiuk Yep, that's the one that I was talking about. The cigar store closed within the last year so I don't know what took over the building.

It has quite the history, doesn't it?

Thanks so much for watching, I appreciate it.

That's funny, I used to work in a group home in Levittown!! I live in Maspeth now but it is always nice to visit the old neighborhood.

I totally missed Peter Eater so I went back to have a look. What I found interesting is that they are using the 'Wimpy' cartoon character from Popeye. I'm sure you can think back to the Wimpy hamburger chain in the USA up until the late 70s? I think it was more popular in the UK where there are still dozens of restaurants that operate under that franchise name. Perhaps I can give you some inside secrets? ;) Some of my most viewed videos are actually shorter repeats of older videos, but I have given them a fresh start with some new narration. Let's say you have a 20 minute video, maybe something like an old Pike Place video. Chances are, as happens to all of us, the last 5 minutes of the video was barely watched. So what I normally do is cut those 5 final minutes from the video and upload it as a new video, lol. I'm dead serious. Ain't nobody going to know any different :) Don't worry if you have deleted the original video, you can download your own videos directly from TH-cam.

It's funny, on any given weekend these 'walks' through neighborhoods get more views than my stories do. However, they don't have longevity whereas each story is pretty much watched every day long after it has been posted. It does help knowing a little bit about the area I am walking in.

@@richardarthur-nycstories Indubitably!

Yeah the restaurant is really well known so I always try to include it if I am in the area, which is infrequent. This was at the end of a long day filming and I was about to get a bus, but I figured I still had one more mile left in my that I could walk, lol. Did you actually go to the show or was it on television? I looked it up online to see what they had. My family name, which is not a very popular name outside of Devon, is also the name of an aircraft, so I looked to see if one of them was at the show.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@richardarthur-nycstories No I wasn’t there- they had a lovely day yesterday but today looked maybe like drizzle! I am subbed to a military aircraft channel- I think several were recording it! It’s much safer to display over the sea. I watched Eastbourne Airshow a week or so ago. Guess what-the Lancaster returned right by the side of our house. Very low- it never flies very high! It’s glorious to see it. There are only 2 flying in the world- the other is in Canada! My son heard it coming & identified it from the engine noise! It went on to display at Biggleswade & Leicester- then went ‘home’ to Conigsbury I followed it to see where it went( on ‘ Plane Finder’) I didn’t see an ‘ Arthur’ plane. I do like air shows- there aren’t so many these days and both Bournemouth and Eastbourne are threatened with closure next year! If you subbed to a military flight channel or just an airplane channel you can watch these displays ‘live’. Bye for now!

@@dianarolph1770 Diana, 'Richard' and 'Arthur' are my legal first and middle names :) I avoided using my real surname for privacy reasons. What is funny though is that my surname is directly from an area in Devon, but the person who named his airplane's with his own surname was actually an American. In the USA it is documented that there are less than 500 people with my surname. Not sure what it is in the UK where it will obviously be higher.

@@dianarolph1770 I actually found the number after a search, there are only 1,900 people in the UK with the same surname as me.

@@richardarthur-nycstories you do see a preponderance of surnames in certain areas- only have to look at Cornwall with all the ‘Pen….’ Surnames! My friend was a Feasey and they were found mostly in North Bucks! ( where she lived.) Years ago people very often stayed in an area all their lives never travelling so the names remained local. It’s a very interesting topic.

I have an even better Charles Atlas story that I look forward to filming in October. There is a sculpture on a New York City landmark, but virtually nobody knows that the model for that sculpture was none other than Charles Atlas.

@@richardarthur-nycstories Looking forward to that! He was the "go to" guy for skinny fellas who were tired of losing their gals at the beach to bigger chaps who would kick sand in their faces!

It sure is!

@@richardarthur-nycstories You betcha !! 👍🤓

When I went to film this (it was years ago ;)) I actually went under the bridge towards to industrial area, but I found it was better to film from the top of the bridge looking down at the industrial parts. I clipped this and figured it would be good enough for the Wednesday garbage that I always put up, lol.

Indeed it is.

@@richardarthur-nycstories I enjoy all of the "pre- war " cars, But, rarely does one see a Pontiac.

Isn't it just!!

It's probably why car junkyards never throw so much as a bolt away, someone will need it one day ;)

Thanks

Thank you for sharing your personal story!! This is where they would get together of an evening and they all went to school just up the road from here in a place called Forest Hills High School. Obviously in different years but Simon and Garfunkel also attended the same school.

In the section on the other side of Metropolitan Ave, I have filmed the cemetery for almost an hour in past videos. As you probably know though, this section of the cemetery is guarded quite well against people taking photographs and videos.

@@richardarthur-nycstories my family is buried on the 80th street side, across from St. Margarets's Church. They are just inside the gate, not far from the road. They have the graves since the 1940s when my great uncle was first buried there. He came here from Italy in 1895 and became a real estate and insurance salesman. That's how he was able to afford the plot for he and his wife. My grandmother "borrowed" a grave from him when my grandfather died in 1956 because she didn't have a grave. They wouldn't let her put a marker on the grave because she didn't own it, so there is just a blank stone cross to mark my grandfather. I also heard that my grandmother's family didn't like her husband, so that could have been why too.

@@JTRocks4Ever In a video that I did just a few weeks ago I actually took a walk along 80th, starting at the church and heading down to the flower shop. I was on the cemetery side of the street.

Unfortunately I don't live right in the area, but I agree with you, the back view can often be overlooked. For the Cypress Hills Massacre video that I did, and the one on Henry Hill's Suite Lounge, I went around to the back for those locations.

@@richardarthur-nycstories I’ll check those out

Actually I didn't!! The neighbors were making a row up until 4am so I didn't get to bed until way late. Right now I am trying to curtail filming any more shorts for the time being, I still have about 40 yet to post, lol. I'm probably going to go to either Europe of South Korea in November, so I will load up on shorts then. Full videos outside of New York tank on my channel, so I will only film a handful of full videos wherever I decide to go.

Behind the truck would have been the local view of the World Trade Center, and this fire department here lost the most firemen that day out of all New York fire departments. I've filmed footage of the station and the nearby memorial for a story in the coming weeks.

Right behind the truck was the view of the World Trade Center, and this station house lost the most firemen that day.

@@richardarthur-nycstories How sad. I hope none of us ever forgets their bravery & sacrifice.

I don't know if the made a Falcon convertible other than '64, the only ones that I have seen are that year, but then again I'm not exactly a big car aficionado.

@@richardarthur-nycstories I too don't know a whole lot about cars. But being a child of the 60s, the autos of that decade have a special place in my heart.

I can't even tell you how long it took me to find that advertisement :) I had to search through the archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle until I found one. "Suite Lounge" isn't a very easy term to search as there are tens of thousands of hits to wade through.

@@richardarthur-nycstories Amazing you found it.. I noticed there is a few negative comments on this thread Don't ever let those insidious fools bum you out. We live in a time where people weren't taught gratitude as children - *CHEERS* and thanks again for the great video

@@trevmac8362 It's like water off a duck's back for me. Nothing said on the Internet by a stranger has any effect on me ;) What I liked about this video was that I was also able to find other newspaper articles for the location, and in a later video that I did I was also able to discover why the "For Men Only" hair salon was given as being in two locations. Henry said that it was a couple of blocks away, but he also said that it was next door. From my amateur sleuth work I found out that the salon was originally next door to The Suite Lounge, but when Henry came out of prison it was two blocks away. I found newspaper ads for both locations :)

Wasn't much of a walk going from one end of the building to the other and back, lol. Still, there is indeed a lot of history attached to this small building.

Ironic that it had the best view of the Trade Center, but the firehouse behind me where I am filming this lost the most fireman in NY in the attack.

I didn't have time to edit a proper video today so I clipped this from the car show video, so it is basically an extra car video to those that I already have. Next week I have 4 shorts already pre-posted. Hazmat1, a repeat of a vintage car that tanked the first time I posted it, lol, Atlas Park Mall and a car wreck parked on the streets.

You were close!! I was on the other side of the BQE on Metropolitan at Union. I'm guessing as it was a special ops vehicle it was probably a loaner, hence why no precinct on the car.

I mean when you think about it the arena would have been attached pretty much to that building when it was the Bliss theater. There was also a Madison Square Garden in Sunnyside, but it didn't last long because no champion would fight there. It became known as the champion's graveyard because every champion who fought there lost their title, so therefore no champion wanted to fight there once they knew that :)

It's been a while but I think that we talked about your uncle before, right? He has a page up on boxrec if I remember. Tony Danza fought at Sunnyside Garden, but I will be honest, I haven't studied the cards yet. I've filmed it for a future full length video once I have studied it. One thing that I found out is that Bruno Sammartino wrestled Gorgeous George at Sunnyside Garden. That was before Sammartino became a major star and it was at the end of George's career.

Yes.. We had talked about my Uncle.. I remember you sent me the link to his boxing record.. Yes Tony Danza was a fighter before he went into acting. I remember my uncle telling me back in the day about all the fights that took place at Sunnyside gardens.. Bruno Sammartino was awesome

I actually recorded about 8 minutes of footage to tell a story on the arena later on. Even the actor, Tony Danza, boxed here :)

@@richardarthur-nycstories Fascinating! I had forgotten that actor Tony Danza was once a boxer.

That was something that I did not know!!